Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In his review of the XIX Salón de Arte Venezolano (1958), the critic Perán Erminy notes the ingenious reliance on historical criteria in the arrangement of works selected for the event, from the old landscape masters to the new style of Abstract [...]

This interview by critic and curator Juan Carlos Palenzuela with Venezuelan visual artist Pedro Ángel González does not follow a question-answer format. Palenzuela instead lets the artist freely recount his early days at art school when he was just [...]

Juan Calzadilla reviews the work of the Venezuelan visual artist Pedro Ángel González. In his essay, Calzadilla mentions the artist’s creativity and critical skills, referring to his constant reflection on his own work and the work of other [...]

In this article Mara Comerlati reviews the exhibition of prints by the visual artist Pedro Ángel González (1901–81). The journalist describes the exhibition at the TAGA (Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados) as a reunion with González and his [...]

This curatorial text by William Niño Araque reviews the landscape genre in Venezuela starting with an early twentieth-century trend called “national landscape” and the approaches favored by the Círculo de Bellas Artes. The writer concludes his [...]

In its third and final installment, the review written by Enrique Planchart on the Exposición del Paisaje Venezolano, the author contemplates the works of some artists that he identifies with the following phrases: “extensive work” (Marcos [...]

The Venezuelan art historian Bélgica Rodríguez takes a look at the art produced in her country. According to her, twentieth-century Venezuelan art began with the landscape painters who were active in the early part of the century. She [...]